Wow does DNA methyltransferase cause oncogenic transformation?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 910, Issue , 2000, Pages 156-177

  Szyf, Moshe ^a   Knox, David J ^a   Milutinovic, Snezana ^a   Slack, Andrew D ^a   Araujo, Felipe D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NEOPLASM;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034201081     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06707.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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